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                <title>Abaev Dictionary: entry <w>æfsīn</w></title>
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            <publicationStmt xml:base="../pubstmt.xml"><p>Translated from Russian in 2020 by Oleg Belyaev (ed.), Irina Khomchenkova, Julia
    Sinitsyna and Vadim Dyachkov.</p></publicationStmt>
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                <bibl xml:lang="ru"><author>Абаев, Василий Иванович</author>.
                        <title>Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка</title>. Т.
                        <biblScope unit="volume">I</biblScope>. A–Kʼ. <pubPlace>М.–Л.</pubPlace>:
                        <publisher>Наука</publisher>, <date>1958</date>. С. <biblScope unit="page">??–??</biblScope>.</bibl>
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            <entry xml:id="entry_æfsīn" xml:lang="os" abv:completeness="english-questions">
                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T185637+0300" comment="checked"?>
                <form xml:id="form_d2931e66" xml:lang="os-x-iron" type="lemma"><orth>æfsīn</orth></form><?oxy_comment_end ?>
                <form xml:id="form_d2931e69" xml:lang="os-x-digor" type="dialectal"><orth>æfsīnæ</orth></form>
                <sense xml:id="sense_d2931e72">
                    <sense xml:id="sense_d2931e73">
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>хозяйка дома, распоряжающаяся хозяйством, припасами, стряпней,
                                угощением</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>the mistress of the house, managing the household, supplies, cooking,
                                meals</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                    </sense>
                    <sense xml:id="sense_d2931e82">
                        <note type="comment" xml:lang="ru">также </note>
                        <note type="comment" xml:lang="en">also </note>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>свекровь</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>mother-in-law (of a man)</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                    </sense>
                </sense>
                <re xml:id="re_d2931e100">
                    <form xml:id="form_d2931e102" type="lemma"><orth>fæsæfsīn
                            <oRef>æfsīn</oRef></orth></form>
                    <sense xml:id="sense_d2931e105">
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>заместительница хозяйки</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q><?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T145803+0300" comment="or substitute? I&apos;m not sure how this is used"?>deputy<?oxy_comment_end ?>
                                mistress</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                    </sense>
                </re>
                <abv:exampleGrp xml:id="exampleGrp_d2931e165">
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e167">
                        <quote>Narty <oRef>’fsīn</oRef> — Satana</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>нартовская хозяйка — Шатана</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>the mistress of the Narts — Satana</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e182">
                        <quote>xorz <oRef>æfsīn</oRef> cy næ xærīnag aværʒæn lægæn jæ razy!</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>хорошая хозяйка каких только кушаний не поставит перед человеком!</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>a good
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T150105+0300" comment="I used hostess here because it is appropriate in context, but the word as such does not mean hostess"?>hostess<?oxy_comment_end ?>
                                will put lots of food before a person!</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
                            <biblScope>80</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e201">
                        <quote><oRef>æfsīn</oRef> bacydī kʼæbīcmæ æmæ xæbīzǵyn yskodta</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>хозяйка пошла в клеть и приготовила пирог с сыром</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>the mistress of the house went to the
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T145557+0300" comment="клеть"?>pantry<?oxy_comment_end ?>
                                and made a cheese pie</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_ОТ"/>
                            <biblScope>93</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e220">
                        <quote>æz ærcydtæn… ḱynʒy je <oRef>’fsīnīmæ</oRef> bajwarynmæ</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>я пришел разделить… невестку со свекровью ее</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>for I am come to set… the daughter in law against her mother in
                                law</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Матфей"/>
                            <biblScope><w>10</w> 35</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e239">
                        <quote>xorz <oRef>æfsīn</oRef> yn ærxæssyn qæwy, <oRef>ænæfsīn</oRef> xæʒar
                            — ænaǧ˳yst xæʒar ū</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>надо привести ему хорошую хозяйку, дом без хозяйки (все равно что)
                                дом без крыши</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>you need to bring him a good
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T151103+0300" comment="I think this is appropriate in this context. &quot;Mistress&quot; would mean something totally different…"?>housewife<?oxy_comment_end ?>,
                                a house without a
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T151415+0300" comment="but here &quot;mistress&quot; sounds appropriate"?>mistress<?oxy_comment_end ?>
                                (is like) a house without a roof</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_F."/>
                            <biblScope>1957 I 13</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e259">
                        <quote>bawajʒæftæ kodta lægæn je <oRef>’fsīn</oRef></quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>забранила мужа хозяйка</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>the housewife scolded her husband a lot</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Puškin._Arhau"/>
                            <biblScope>5</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e278">
                        <quote>æz īskæj bæxæn mæxī <oRef>æfsīn</oRef> k˳yd yskænon?</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>как могу я хозяйничать над чужой лошадью?</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>how can I
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T151658+0300" comment="lit. do the mistress"?>act
                                as a mistress<?oxy_comment_end ?> over someone else’s horse?</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Брит."/>
                            <biblScope>148</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e297">
                        <quote>o, næ xorz æfsīn, Satana!</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>о, наша славная хозяйка, Шатана!</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>o, our glorious mistress, Satana!</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
                            <biblScope>221</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e316" xml:lang="os-x-digor">
                        <usg><lang/></usg>
                        <quote>æxsijnæ-<oRef>æfsijnæ</oRef> Satana</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>госпожа-хозяйка Шатана</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q><?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T151750+0300" comment="as female of &quot;lord&quot;"?>lady<?oxy_comment_end ?>-mistress
                                Satana!</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_СОПам."/>
                            <biblScope>II 45</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                    <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e338" xml:lang="os-x-digor">
                        <usg><lang/></usg>
                        <quote>ragæj dær æj, ne ’fsijnæ, mæ zærdi dæ ʒurd</quote>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>давно, наша хозяйка, запало в мое сердце твое слово</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>long ago, our lady, your word sank into my heart</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Gurdž._Æduli"/>
                            <biblScope>71</biblScope></bibl>
                    </abv:example>
                </abv:exampleGrp>
                <re xml:id="re_d2931e116" xml:lang="os-x-digor">
                    <form xml:id="form_d2931e120" type="lemma"><lang/>
                        <orth>roxsi ’fsijnæ</orth></form>
                    <sense xml:id="sense_d2931e123">
                        <note type="comment" xml:lang="ru"><gloss><q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">хозяйка света</q></gloss> = </note>
                        <note type="comment" xml:lang="en"><gloss><q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">mistress of the light</q></gloss> = </note>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                            <q>солнце</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                        <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                            <q>the sun</q>
                        </abv:tr>
                    </sense>
                    <abv:exampleGrp xml:id="exampleGrp_d2931e141">
                        <abv:example xml:id="example_d2931e143">
                            <quote><oRef>roxsi ’fsijnæ</oRef> surx læfinttæ iswaǧta</quote>
                            <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
                                <q>хозяйка света испустила красный поток лучей</q>
                            </abv:tr>
                            <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
                                <q>the mistress of the light emitted a red stream of rays</q>
                            </abv:tr>
                            <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_MD"/>
                                <biblScope>1936 I 53</biblScope></bibl>
                        </abv:example>
                    </abv:exampleGrp>
                </re>
                <etym xml:lang="ru">Как <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xsīn"><w>xsīn</w>
                        <gloss><q>госпожа</q></gloss></ref> возводится к <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">xšaiθni-</w></mentioned>, так <oRef>æfsīn</oRef>
                    фонетически могло бы восходить к <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">abi-šaiθni-</w>
                        <note type="comment">от <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w>šay-</w>
                                <gloss><q>обитать</q></gloss></mentioned></note></mentioned>, ср.
                        <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e438" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e365" xml:lang="ae"><lang/>
                        <w>aibi-šaetan-</w>
                        <gloss><q>обитатель</q></gloss></mentioned>. Исходное значение было бы в
                    этом случае <gloss><q>обитательница</q></gloss> с дальнейшим развитием:
                            <gloss><q>главная обитательница</q></gloss> →
                        <gloss><q>хозяйка</q></gloss>. В данной связи нельзя пройти мимо
                    среднеазиатского термина <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned>.
                    Титул <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> засвидетельствован
                    (главным образом у арабских писателей) с VIII—IX в. (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Justi"/>
                        <biblScope>252</biblScope></bibl>. — <bibl><title>Энциклопедия
                            Ислама</title>
                        <biblScope>под словом <w>Afshīn</w></biblScope></bibl>). Афшинами назывались
                    правители области Усрушана (об афшинах Усрушаны см.: <bibl><title>Изв. отд.
                            обществ, наук АН Тадж. ССР</title>, <biblScope xml:lang="ru">вып. 5,
                            стр. 119 сл.</biblScope></bibl>). Последний из них, Хайдар, называемый в
                    арабских источниках просто <w>al-Afshīn</w> и достигший значительной известности
                    как полководец халифов Мамуна и Мутасима, умер в 841 г. Титул <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> засвидетельствован также на
                        <lang>согдийской</lang> почве: согдийский правитель Гурек (737 или 738 г.) в
                    договоре с арабским военачальником Кутейбой ибн Муслимом именует себя: <q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">ихшид Согда, афшин Самарканда</q> (<bibl>В.
                        В. <author>Бартольд</author>. <title>Туркестан в эпоху монгольского
                            нашествия</title>, ч. 2., <date>1900</date>, <biblScope xml:lang="ru">стр. 217</biblScope></bibl>). Здесь ясно выступает нарицательное
                    значение слова <mentioned xml:lang="sog"><w>afsīn</w>
                        <gloss><q>правитель</q></gloss></mentioned>. Поскольку <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> в своей форме носит ясные черты
                    скифского (массагетского) происхождения (<mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><m>-īna</m>
                        <note type="comment">из <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><m>-aθni</m></mentioned></note></mentioned>, ср. <mentioned xml:lang="kho"><gloss>имя сакской царицы</gloss>
                        <w>Zarina</w>
                        <note type="comment">у Ктесия</note>
                        <note type="comment">из <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w>zaranya-</w> →
                                    <w>zarainya-</w>
                                <gloss><q>золото</q></gloss></mentioned>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_zærīn" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
                                <w>zærinæ</w></ref></note></mentioned>), термин <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> в Согдиане и Усрушане должен
                    рассматриваться как <hi rendition="#rend_smallcaps">заимствование из скифского
                        (массагетского)</hi>. Мы имеем дело со <hi rendition="#rend_smallcaps">скифским</hi> социальным термином, распространившимся по Средней Азии.<note type="footnote" xml:lang="ru" n="1">Фонетически немыслимо вывести <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> из <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w>xšēwan</w></mentioned>, как предлагает <name>Henning</name> (см.
                                <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Gershevitch"/>
                            <biblScope>48</biblScope></bibl>). Нельзя также видеть в <oRef/> перебой
                        из <ref type="xr" target="#entry_7xsīn"><w>ᵆxsīn</w></ref>
                                (<bibl><author>Gershevitch</author>
                            <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_BSOAS"/>
                            <biblScope xml:lang="ru">1955 XVII 481, прим. 4</biblScope>
                            <biblScope xml:lang="en">1955 XVII 481, fn. 4</biblScope></bibl>) ввиду
                        отсутствия других случаев подобного перебоя.</note> Весьма возможно, что
                    термин <oRef/> восходит к маcсагетскому матриархату и служил первоначально
                    наименованием массагетских правительниц типа знаменитой Томирис, а затем из
                    массагетского был заимствован в соседние области Средней Азии уже в применении к
                    правителям мужчинам. И Усрушана и Согдиана непосредственно примыкают к
                    массагетской территории. <lang xml:lang="os">Ос.</lang>
                    <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> употребляется иногда взамен
                    собственного имени в применении к прославленной нартовской хозяйке Шатане и
                    другим героиням (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_СОПам."/>
                        <biblScope>II 12, 17, 18</biblScope></bibl>). В качестве собственного имени
                        <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> попало также к некоторым соседям
                    осетин; ср. <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e473" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e399" xml:lang="ka-x-khevsur"><lang/>
                        <w>Apšina</w>
                        <gloss>мужское собственное имя</gloss>
                        <note type="bibl">(<bibl><author>Важа Пшавела</author>. <title>Гоготур и
                                    Апшина</title></bibl>)</note></mentioned>. В этом хевсурском
                    имени можно видеть указание на то, что и <lang xml:lang="os"/>
                    <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> могло в прошлом относиться также к
                    мужчине. К осетинскому примыкает <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e484" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e410" xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><lang/>
                        <w>apsən</w>, <w>afsən</w>
                        <gloss><q>золовка</q></gloss></mentioned>. Ср. <ref type="xr" target="#entry_fysym"/>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_7xsīn"><w>xsīn</w></ref>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ældar"/>.<lb/>
                    <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_ОЯФ_I"/>
                        <biblScope>257</biblScope></bibl>. — <bibl><author>Benveniste</author>
                        <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_BSL"/>
                        <biblScope>LIl 18</biblScope></bibl>.</etym>
                <etym xml:lang="en">Like <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xsīn"><w>xsīn</w>
                        <gloss><q>mistress</q></gloss></ref> is derived from <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">xšaiθni-</w></mentioned>, thus, phonetically,
                        <w>æfsīn</w> could be derived from <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">abi-šaiθni-</w>
                        <note type="comment">from <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w>šay-</w>
                                <gloss><q>to dwell</q></gloss></mentioned></note></mentioned>, cf.
                        <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e365" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e438" xml:lang="ae"><lang/>
                        <w>aibi-šaetan-</w>
                        <gloss><q>dweller</q></gloss></mentioned>. In this case, the initial meaning
                    would be <gloss><q>inhabitant</q></gloss> with further development:
                            <gloss><q>main inhabitant</q></gloss> → <gloss><q>mistress</q></gloss>.
                    In this regard, one cannot ignore the Central Asian term
                        <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T184155+0300" comment="based on the description I assume the word is Scythian"?><mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned><?oxy_comment_end ?>. The title
                        <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> is attested (mainly by
                    Arab writers) since the 8th–9th centuries. (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Justi"/>
                        <biblScope>252</biblScope></bibl>. — <bibl><title>Encyclopaedia of
                            Islam</title>
                        <biblScope>under the word <w>Afshīn</w></biblScope></bibl>). <w>Afšīn</w>
                    was the name of the rulers of the Osrušana region (for information on the
                    <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T184702+0300" comment="italicize?"?>afshins<?oxy_comment_end ?>
                    of Osrušana, see: <bibl><title>Izvestija otdelenija obščestvennyx nauk AN
                            Tadžikskoj SSR</title> [Bulletin of the Department of Social Sciences of
                        the Tajik ASSR], <biblScope xml:lang="en">vol. 5, p. 119
                        ff.</biblScope></bibl>). The last of them, Haydar, who was called in Arab
                    sources simply <w>al-Afšīn</w> and who achieved considerable fame as the
                    commander of the caliphs al-Maʼmūn and al-Muʽtaṣim, died in 841. The title
                        <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> is also attested in
                        <lang>Sogdian</lang> society: the Sogdian ruler Ghurak (737 or 738) in the
                    agreement with the Arab commander Qutayba ibn Muslim calls himself: <gloss><q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">the Ikhshid of Sogd, afshin of
                            Samarqand</q></gloss> (<bibl>V. V. <author>Bartold</author>.
                            <title>Turkestan v èpoxu mongolʼskogo našestvija</title> [Turkestan in
                        the era of the Mongol invasion], part 2, <date>1900</date>, <biblScope xml:lang="en">p. 217</biblScope></bibl>). Here, the common appellative
                    meaning of the word
                        <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T171122+0300" comment="I assume that in this context it refers to Sogdian"?><mentioned xml:lang="sog"><w>afsīn</w>
                        <gloss><q>ruler</q></gloss></mentioned><?oxy_comment_end ?> appears clearly.
                    Since <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> bears in its form clear
                    features of Scythian (Massagetean) origin (<mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><m>-īna</m>
                        <note type="comment">from <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><m>-aθni</m></mentioned></note></mentioned>, cf. the <mentioned xml:lang="kho"><gloss>name of the Saka queen</gloss>
                        <w>Zarina</w>
                        <note type="comment"><foreign>apud</foreign> Ctesias</note>
                        <note type="comment">from <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w>zaranya-</w> →
                                    <w>zarainya-</w>
                                <gloss><q>gold</q></gloss></mentioned>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_zærīn" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
                                <w>zærinæ</w></ref></note></mentioned>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_zærīn" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
                        <w>zærinæ</w></ref>), the term <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> in Sogdiana and Osrušana should be considered as
                        <hi rendition="#rend_smallcaps">borrowed from Scythian (Massagetean)</hi>.
                    We are dealing with a <hi rendition="#rend_smallcaps">Scythian</hi> social term
                    that spread throughout Central Asia.<note type="footnote" xml:lang="en" n="1">Deducing <mentioned xml:lang="xsc"><w>afšīn</w></mentioned> from
                            <w>xšēwan</w>, as proposed by <name>Henning</name>, is phonetically
                        unthinkable (see
                                <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T185219+0300" comment="not sure if Gershevitch just cites Henning or argues with him (check)"?><bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Gershevitch"/>
                            <biblScope>48</biblScope></bibl><?oxy_comment_end ?>). Neither can one
                        see in <oRef/> an alternation of <ref type="xr" target="#entry_7xsīn"><w>ᵆxsīn</w></ref> (<bibl><author>Gershevitch</author>
                            <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_BSOAS"/>
                            <biblScope xml:lang="ru">1955 XVII 481, fn. 4</biblScope></bibl>) in the
                        absence of other cases of such alternations.</note> It is quite possible
                    that the term <oRef/> goes back to the Massagetean matriarchy and was originally
                    the name of the Massagetean rulers like the famous Tomyris, and then from the
                    Massageteans it was borrowed into the neighbouring regions of Central Asia,
                    where it was applied to male rulers. Both Osrušana and Sogdiana are directly
                    adjacent to the Massagetean territory. <lang xml:lang="os"/>
                    <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> is sometimes used instead of a proper
                    name when applied to the famous Nart mistress Satana and other heroines
                            (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_СОПам."/>
                        <biblScope>II 12, 17, 18</biblScope></bibl>). As a proper name, <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> also reached some of the neighbours of
                    the Ossetians; cf. <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e399" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e473" xml:lang="ka-x-khevsur"><lang/>
                        <w>Apšina</w>, <gloss>male proper name</gloss>
                        <note type="bibl">(<bibl><author>Vazha Pshavela</author>. <title>Gogotur and
                                    Apshina</title></bibl>)</note></mentioned>. In this Khevsurian
                    name, one can see an indication of the fact that the Ossetic <oRef xml:lang="os-x-digor">æfsīnæ</oRef> in the past
                    <?oxy_comment_start author="oleg" timestamp="20240129T185608+0300" comment="then why conjecture on the Massagetean matriarchy if the term could be masculine?"?>could
                    also refer to a man<?oxy_comment_end ?>. Close to Ossetic is also <mentioned corresp="#mentioned_d2931e410" xml:id="mentioned_d2931e484" xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><lang/>
                        <w>apsən</w>, <w>afsən</w>
                        <gloss><q>sister-in-law</q></gloss></mentioned>. Cf. <ref type="xr" target="#entry_fysym"/>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_7xsīn"><w>xsīn</w></ref>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ældar"/>.<lb/>
                    <bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_ОЯФ_I"/>
                        <biblScope>257</biblScope></bibl>. — <bibl><author>Benveniste</author>
                        <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_BSL"/>
                        <biblScope>LIl 18</biblScope></bibl></etym>
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